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2.1 and 2.2 Flashcards

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What are the four major population clusters?

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South Asia
SouthEast Asia
East Asia
Europe

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What is Eurasia

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Europe and Asia combined

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Ecumenism

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Lands that are habitable

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Population clusters

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Heavily populated areas which show the unevenness of population

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Metacity

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20 million or more people

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Megacity

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10-19 million people

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Developed countries

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Fully industrialized countries / advanced economies

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Developing country

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Economically poorer than developed countries

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Snow belt

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Northern and midwestern parts of land

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Sunbelt

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Coastal and south and south western parts of land

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Mean center of population

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Balancing point/middle point of the population

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Population density

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Average # of people per unit of land

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Arithmetic (crude) density

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How populated a unit of land is

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What do empty quarters show

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Empty quarters show the patterns on why people dont live there

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Reasons that effect where we live

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Landforms, climate(latitude), culture, disease, economic richness, elevation, fertile soil, and bodies of water

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Where do people not settle

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Too hot, cold, wet, hilly, dry

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Population Composition

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Makeup of the population by age, sex, ethnicity, income, and education

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What does population composition effect

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Effects rate of birth, death and migration

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Age structure

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Breakdown of a population into different age groups

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Dependency ratio

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The number of dependents in a population which shows every 100 people must care for

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Youth dependency ratio

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Number of people under 15 who can’t care for themselves

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Elderly dependency ratio

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Number of people above 64 who can’t care for themselves and must be supported

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What is the equation for the dependency ratio?

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Youth+Elderly divided by the number of working people

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Generations

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Groups of people who were born around the same time and share common traits because of how they grew up culturally

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GI Generation
Oldest generation in America 1924 fought in the war
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Silent Generation
1924-1945, lived in the Great Depression, small because there weren’t very many births
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Baby Boomers
1946-1964, post World War Two birthday that skyrocketed
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Gen X:
1965-1980, they are in the Prime working years
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Millennials
1981-2000, fight for political rights, in a lot of debt
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Gen Z
My generation, too early to tell the common traits
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Sex ratio
Males to every 100 women in a population
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Androcentrism
A Culture that demonstrates a preference for males
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Infanticide
The practice of killing infants
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Pop pyramids
Comparing age and sex structure
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Rapid growth pyramids
Wide base, birth rates are high, elderly don’t live as long
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Slow growth pyramids
Birth rate is just over death rate, narrow base but still a pyramid shape
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Stability pyramid
Birth rate is similar the the death rate, looks like a pillar
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Decline pyramid
Narrow base, too heavy, labor shortage
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An effect of Gender selective migration
Causes gender imbalances
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Who are the dependent people
People 15> and 64<
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What does arithmetic population density show
Represents how many people live per sq mile
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Physiological population density
Shows how many people depend on an area of land for food
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What is agricultural density
Shows the amount of farmers per arable land which shows the economic development of a country
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What does a high number of agricultural density mean?
The country is not very industrialized
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ESPN - consequences of population distribution
Economic Social Political Natural Resources
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Economic reasons for population distribution
Job opportunities Natural resources available
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Social/cultural reasons of population distribution
Housing, religion, safer, transportation; community
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Environmental reasons of population distribution
Maximum population size an environment can sustain High population density would mean more pressure on resources
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What does it mean when a country has lower wages
It it less developed or industrialized
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What so the equation for arithmetic population density
Total pop ________\____ Land area
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Equation for physiological population density
Total Pop ___________ Arable land
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Equation for agricultural density
Farmers ___________ Arable land

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